As Field noted, the Labour Party had itself replaced the Liberal Party nearly a century ago, after the latter failed to tackle issues of importance for the electorate.

In recent years “The two issues of immigration and Englishness,” he also observed, “have been denied a legitimate role in our parliamentary representative system.” And, it must be said, not just these.

Tensions have been inexorably rising throughout the last few years as politicians have ignored the issues, or have seemed to be in bed with those who would destroy Britain’s freedoms – from employing Islamists as advisors to the government to claiming that terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims against the public is “anti-Islamic activity.”